Table 1. Summary statistics for 454 sequencing of 16S rRNA genes from P. placomus.

Sample	Raw reads	Filtered reads	No. reads subsampled	Observed OTUs	Effective # of species	Shannon index	Chao1 richness	ACE richness	Simpson evenness
NF12.19Q1	4,393	4,300	4,300	105	54	3.98	107.80	108.20	0.0574
NF12.19Q2	7,577	7,268	4,300	107	36	3.58	117.91	115.17	0.0468
NF12.19Q5	6,197	5,635	4,300	168	97	4.57	170.36	173.47	0.0305
NF12.19Q6	404	262	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
NF12.19Q7	428	389	–	–	–	–	–	–	–